Candidate Hold: Build it TOO BIG

[Johny Joe Hold]

Des Moines Register
March 3, 2010

Johny Joe Hold, candidate for Mayor in Freehold, today announced that, if elected, he will propose a new Ten Commandments Monument. He believes he has a strategy to circumvent restrictions on religious statements on public property. At a news conference on the lawn of the Freehold City Hall, Hold spoke at length about his frustration with Federal laws against Ten Commandment displays.

"I am so angry," Hold said. "A couple of days ago, the liberal U. S. Supreme Court allowed a sacred display of the Ten Commandments on public property in Oklahoma to be moved. The Godless people won. This must stop."

Hold went on to explain the monument he wants to place on public property if elected Mayor of Freehold. "What we need here in Godly Freehold is a Ten Commandments Monument so big it cannot be moved. If it is too big to move, and, too expensive to tear down, the ACLU can sue until the cows come home and it will just sit there," Hold said.

Hold said he is consulting with engineers to find a location on the City Hall property that will support the weight of the massive structure he is planning.

Local ACLU President, Sarah Meyir, said her group was stunned by the annoucement. "We were making progress against these religious monuments," she said. "This is an entirely new strategy. It looks like trouble for us.

Other candidates for Freehold Mayor could not be reached for comment. The election in Freehold is March 17.

Mali Upbeat
Reporter

[James Dewitt]

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JJHold is going to bring true change to Freehold. A theocratic government. With a little luck the change will spread like a wild fire through the rest of the nation and Sister Palin and Brother Huckabee will be elected to the office of President and Vice President. Then we can do away with that pesky constitution

[Wide-Open]

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Young Mr. Hold,

While I appreciate your efforts in building this Godly monument, I can't help feeling like ... Moses, coming down from the Mountain, only to see, uhm, a 24 carat veal containing animal type of project going on.

I would write more, but I have to go now and put on my best suit, new underwear, and prepare myself for a happening that goes far beyond earthly monuments.

Yours in Christ,
Pastor Wide-Open.

[Alfred King]

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if elected, he will propose a new Ten Commandments Monument ... a Ten Commandments Monument so big it cannot be moved ... the massive structure he is planning

Would this big monument not waste a lot of the tax payers hard earned money?

[James Dewitt]

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Would this big monument not waste a lot of the tax payers hard earned money?

Mr Negativity, maybe the Church will donate it!

[C. Reconstruction]

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JJHold is going to bring true change to Freehold. A theocratic government. With a little luck the change will spread like a wild fire through the rest of the nation and Sister Palin and Brother Huckabee will be elected to the office of President and Vice President. Then we can do away with that pesky constitution

He would not know a true theocracy under Old Testament Law if it bit him on the behind.

I on the other hand will bring that to Freehold and beyond.

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD declared that Jesus Christ was "very God of very God and very man of very man, truly man and truly God, two natures without confusion but in perfect union." Now what this did was to block the possibility of any other incarnation of God. The most common such incarnation was in the state. The state either through its office or through its ruler or through a particular line was held to be divine, god walking on earth. So that the Prime Minister, like Joseph in Egypt, was a high priest. That's why he married priest's daughter. He could not be the Prime Minister and the high priest of Egypt without that marriage. With the Council of Chalcedon the church made clear that there could be no confusion. Jesus Christ is the unique Incarnation. Since then, we've had Hegel tell us that the state is God walking on earth. And whether you are a member of one of the parties on the left or right, you are Hegelian. Republicans and Democrats each in their own way are Hegelian. Then the Church has seen itself in ancient pagan terms as a continuation of the Incarnation. Protestants reject that doctrine, but it's creeping into Protestantism on other grounds. The Church is the Body of Christ and therefore somehow the Church is God's voice on earth. But the Body of Christ refers to the humanity of Christ. The regenerate of Christ are the new humanity of the new Adam, the last Adam, Jesus Christ. We were born in the old humanity of Adam; we are reborn in the new humanity of Jesus Christ. The Church as the Body of Christ is not divine. It represents the new humanity, the Body of the last Adam, Jesus Christ, not His deity.

[Alfred King]

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Mr Negativity, maybe the Church will donate it!

And where does that money come from... Exactly. No matter how you twist it this insane plan of Johny Joe Hold will cost a lot of money.

[H. Montague Worthington]

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The town of Effingham, Illinois built this 198-foot tall cross near the Interstate that can be seen for 20+ miles in either direction. At night it is illuminated.



In St. Augustine, Florida, the 270-foot tall Great Cross is also illuminated at night.




Freehold has to take care not to allow a Piety Gap to develop with other towns--- it could ruin our economy and leave us devastated.

[C. Reconstruction]

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And where does that money come from... Exactly. No matter how you twist it this insane plan of Johny Joe Hold will cost a lot of money.

It will come from mandatory tithing, just like with any good Christian church. If you refuse you will be cast into the wilderness. It's just simple Biblical Law.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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And where does that money come from... Exactly. No matter how you twist it this insane plan of Johny Joe Hold will cost a lot of money.

That is a very good point, my friend. I'm sure you've heard that wonderful phrase, "The Lord will provide."

He will.

[Alfred King]

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That is a very good point, my friend. I'm sure you've heard that wonderful phrase, "The Lord will provide." He will.

Sounds nice, but we all know what you are doing will cost the people of Freehold, a lot.

[Miss Cassandra]

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How very ironic that JJ Hold is going to build a monument for something that says:

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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That is a very good point, my friend. I'm sure you've heard that wonderful phrase, "The Lord will provide."

He will.

Your idea has great merit. What brilliant statesmanship.

[Brother Temperance]

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As the saying goes, "If you build it (to an obnoxiously large size), He will come." Just be careful not to build it so tall that it bothers God, I'd hate to see Freehold become a second Babel.

[James Dewitt]

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And where does that money come from... Exactly. No matter how you twist it this insane plan of Johny Joe Hold will cost a lot of money.

And your point is? If the members of Landover donate the cash what is the problem?